Personality Coorelates of Organizational Commitment Among Male and Female Secondary School Teachers

The main purpose of this study was to examine organizational commitment among male and female Secondary School Teachers in relation to their personality. For this 104 teachers from both Government and Private schools were selected. Selected teachers were tested with Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (Mayer and Allen, 1990) and Neo-FFI (Coasta & McCrae 1992). The data were analyzed by applying Descriptive Statistics, t-ratios and Pearson's correlations. In case of three measures of Organizational Commitment the female teachers have scored significantly high on Normative commitment than male teachers. In case of personality female teachers have scored more on neuroticism, extraversion and openness than their counterparts male teachers. Persual of intercorrelation matrix reveals that in case of female secondary school teachers Affective commitment is significantly related to extraversion. Normative commitment is positively related to extraversion and openness and Continuous commitment is significantly related to neuroticism. Results also reveals that in case of male teachers Affective commitment is significantly related to neuroticism and agreeableness and Continuance Commitment is significantly related to neuroticism. The findings of the present study have important implications for recruitment process of teachers in schools and suggest the need of personality assessment of employees at the entry level.